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ObamaCare Prototype Already Exists - Prison Healthcare For Everybody
Healthcare Behind Bars: Death, Neglect & The Bottom Line
by William Allen and Kim Bell
The St. Louis Dispatch - Investigative Report Reprinted with Permission
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Article 1: Healthcare Behind Bars: Death, Neglect & The Bottom Line
Article 2: Push to Cut Costs Poses Risks & Not Just to Inmates
Article 3: Social Problem, History of Abuse, No Choice / Watchdog without Teeth
Article 4: Prison HMO Business is Booming
Article 5: Dr. Says Bottom Line is Ruled / Inmate Got Treatment Due to a Judge & Nurse
Article 6: Alabama Teen Died in Isolation 7 Weeks after Sentence Began
Article 7: Medical Neglect, Hands-Off Attitude & Diabetic Denied Insulin for 30 Hours
Article 8: Healthcare Workers on Guard / Heart Surgery Delayed Until Too Late
Article 9: Drs. with Troubled Pasts Find Work Behind Bars
Article 10: Florida Women Doen't Get Drug Needed / Seven Nurses and a Doctor Cited For Wrongdoing of Diabetic Treatment
Article 11: Lawsuits Claim A Nurse's Error Led to Four Inmate Deaths / Grand Jury Says Medical Records were Changed in Inmate's File
Article 12: When an Inmate Dies / Look at Death / Autopsies
Special Report: Dying to Get Out
by Mike Fuhrman - Columbia Daily Tribune
Part I: Accrediting agency gives state prisons high marks - September 29, 2002
Part II: Advocates face tough challenge -September 30, 2002
Part III: CMS keeps physicians under wraps - October 1, 2002
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